Congestion control for LTE-V2V

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10447596-B2
Application number	US-201715585772-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2017
Priority date	Aug 9, 2016
Publication date	Oct 15, 2019
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019

Abstract

Improvements may be made for the congestion control considering different technologies, types of radio resources, and priorities of different packets. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines a channel busy ratio (CBR). The UE determines one or more channel resource utilization limits based on the CBR, wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limits corresponds to a respective packet priority. The UE controls transmission of a plurality of packets based on the one or more channel resource utilization limits, each packet of the plurality of packets being associated with a respective packet priority.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining a channel busy ratio (CBR);
determining one or more channel resource utilization limits based on the CBR, wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limits corresponds to a respective packet priority, the channel resource utilization limit being a function of a CBR limit and a number of other UEs within a communication range of the UE; and
controlling transmission of a plurality of packets based on the one or more channel resource utilization limits, each packet of the plurality of packets having a packet priority.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limits is higher for a higher packet priority.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controlling the transmission of the plurality of packets comprises controlling transmission of a packet of the plurality of packets based at least on the determined channel resource utilization limit that corresponds to the respective priority of the packet.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the one or more channel resource utilization limits based on the CBR is based on at least one of pre-configuration within the UE or dynamic configuration via a received configuration message.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limit is determined by:
determining the CBR limit for a corresponding packet priority; and
determining the number of other UEs within a communication range of the UE as a function of the CBR; and
determining a channel resource utilization limit for the corresponding packet priority by dividing the CBR limit for the corresponding packet priority by the number of other UEs within the communication range of the UE.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the CBR limit is higher for a higher packet priority.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the CBR limit is configured based on at least one of pre-configuration within the UE or dynamic configuration via a received configuration message.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controlling the transmission of the plurality of packets comprises:
if a channel resource utilization for a corresponding packet priority is below the corresponding channel resource utilization limit, transmitting each packet of the plurality of packets associated with the corresponding packet priority; and
if the channel resource utilization for the corresponding packet priority is greater than or equal to the corresponding channel resource utilization limit, refraining from transmitting each packet of the plurality of packets associated with the corresponding packet priority.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controlling the transmission of the plurality of packets comprises:
if the plurality of packets with at least two different packet priorities are allowed to be transmitted, transmitting each packet of the plurality of packets with a higher packet priority before transmitting one or more packets of the plurality of packets with a lower packet priority.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controlling the transmission of the plurality of packets comprises:
assigning a weight for each packet priority, wherein the weight defines a portion of packets to be transmitted for a corresponding packet priority; and
transmitting the plurality of packets with at least two different packet priorities based on the weight for each packet priority in an order of packet priority.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the weight for each packet priority is based on the CBR.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein packet priority information for each packet of the plurality of packets is included in at least one of control transmission or data transmission, and
wherein the determining the CBR includes determining a decode-based CBR based on the packet priority information.

13. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
determine a channel busy ratio (CBR);
determine one or more channel resource utilization limits based on the CBR, wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limits corresponds to a respective packet priority, the channel resource utilization limit being a function of a CBR limit and a number of other UEs within a communication range of the UE; and
control transmission of a plurality of packets based on the one or more channel resource utilization limits, each packet of the plurality of packets having a packet priority.

14. The UE of claim 13 , wherein a channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limit is higher for a higher packet priority.

15. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the at least one processor configured to control the transmission of the plurality of packets is configured to control transmission of a packet of the plurality of packets based at least on the determined channel resource utilization limit that corresponds to the respective priority of the packet.

16. The UE of claim 13 , wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limit is determined by:
determining the CBR limit for a corresponding packet priority;
determining the number of other UEs within a communication range of the UE as a function of the CBR; and
determining a channel resource utilization limit for the corresponding packet priority by dividing the CBR limit for the corresponding packet priority by the number of other UEs within the communication range of the UE.

17. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the CBR limit is higher for a higher packet priority.

18. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the at least one processor configured to control the transmission of the plurality of packets is configured to:
if a channel resource utilization for a corresponding packet priority is below the corresponding channel resource utilization limit, transmit each packet of the plurality of packets associated with the corresponding packet priority; and
if the channel resource utilization for the corresponding packet priority is greater than or equal to the corresponding channel resource utilization limit, refrain from transmitting each packet of the plurality of packets associated with the corresponding packet priority.

19. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the at least one processor configured to control the transmission of the plurality of packets is configured to:
if the plurality of packets with at least two different packet priorities are allowed to be transmitted, transmit each packet of the plurality of packets with a higher packet priority before transmitting one or more packets of the plurality of packets with a lower packet priority.

20. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the at least one processor configured to control the transmission of the plurality of packets is configured to:
assign a weight for each packet priority, wherein the weight defines a portion of packets to be transmitted for a corresponding packet priority; and
transmit the plurality of packets with at least two different packet priorities based on the weight for each packet priority in an order of packet priority.

21. The UE of claim 20 , wherein the weight for each packet priority is based on the CBR.

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Gulati Kapil
• Gupta Gaurav
• Patil Shailesh
• Papaleo Marco

Classifications

• H04W28/0268

  using specific QoS parameters for wireless networks, e.g. QoS class identifier [QCI] or guaranteed bit rate [GBR] (negotiating SLA or negotiating QoS H04W28/24) · CPC title

• H04W28/0284 Primary

  detecting congestion or overload during communication (monitoring arrangements H04L43/00) · CPC title

• H04W72/56

  based on priority criteria · CPC title

• H04L47/24

  Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS · CPC title

• H04L47/11

  Identifying congestion · CPC title